Siliguri, Dec. 9: The management has pulled out of a tea garden in the Terai, citing insecurity after wages were delayed "due to the demonetisation effects". Senior officers of Tirrihannah tea estate, located around 35km from Siliguri, left the ...

A thermocol processing unit in Dabgram industrial estate, on the outskirts of Siliguri, was gutted in a fire today after a suspected short circuit. Four fire engines had to be sent from the Siliguri fire station to control the blaze that spread to 145 ...

Road accident victims will not have to rush to either Siliguri or Malda as the district health department is opening a trauma care centre at the district hospital here next year. According to police sources, North Dinajpur has 170km of the national highways, ...

Siliguri, Dec. 8: The North Bengal Medical College and Hospital has decided to evict illegal hawkers from the hospital premises. According to hospital officials, clustering of illegal hawkers in different areas is not only creating problems ...

Siliguri, Dec. 8: Senior officials of the Airport Authority of India (AAI) today said the work of calibration of the Instrumental Landing System that has been installed at Bagdogra airport has started and by the month-end the mechanism was expected ...

Siliguri mayor and MLA Asok Bhattacharya today said he was hopeful of getting outstanding state government funds for the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, a day after an hour-long meeting with ministers Partha Chatterjee and Firhad Hakim in the Assembly.

A suspected ISI agent was arrested from Panitanki area near India-Nepal border in Siliguri on Monday evening. A senior police officer said Ranabijay Singh, a suspected ISI agent, was arrested by officers from the Anti-Corruption Branch and local ...

An Army helicopter crashed today about 11:20am while attempting to land at Sukna Military Station near Siliguri, killing three officers on the spot. The deceased have been identified as Lt Col Arvind Bajala, Maj Lather and Lt Col Rajnish. The fourth ...

Siliguri, Dec. 5: The tea industry in north Bengal is still reeling under the demonetisation-induced cash crisis and a number of tea estates are yet to make wage payments as their banks are yet to get approvals from higher levels within their ...